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TORCH SONG?About a night club crooner who joins the Salvation Army. Some able reporting of the American scene by Kenyon Nicholson (TIME, Sept...
...York City, October 5--Rudolph "Rudy" Vallee, Yale '26 and Maine varsity letter man, denied today having had any correspondence with Harvard officials relative to the recording and popularizing of "Harvardiana" and "Our Director", two Harvard songs to which the famous New York crooner had supposedly been denied the rights, and declared that in making phonograph records of the songs he believed that he "was giving Harvard a good plug just as he had done for Maine with the 'Stein Song...
...Fair Harvard" and the University football songs barely escaped "popularization" this year at the bands of the Yale-University of Maine crooner, Rudy Vallee, it was learned yesterday...
...torch" song is one in which the theme and lyric express the deep affection, often unappreciated, which the crooner bears for the object of his or her devotion. Such a song Ivy Stevens (Mayo Methot) sang for Howard Palmer (Reed Brown Jr.), women's wear drummer, one July night at a flashy roadhouse on the outskirts of Cincinnati. Howard was sitting behind a bower of chemically pink paper roses so Ivy did not see when he left, but she got the note he scribbled on the back of a menu saying that although they had been very happy together...
...shadows in the Lucky Strike series, almost out of all human proportion. Yet while Camel cigarets have advertised smoking pleasure, while Chesterfield cigarets have maintained that taste is the cigaret's vital quality, while Old Gold cigarets have compared themselves to Rudy Vallée, radio crooner, and many another swift and contemporaneous success, American Tobacco and Lucky Strikes lave been enjoying prosperity in an unprosperous season, have made profit in an unprofitable year...